Kathy Runs

Overtraining injuries are the story of my life. From IT band inflammation, to pulled muscles in my abdomen, to a swollen foot. Injury prevention is just as important to a runner as good nutrition and a solid training schedule. Two days ago, I woke up with a swollen metatarsal in my left foot. I can [...]

Distance running gives me plenty of time for meditation and escape into areas of my mind I never knew existed. Often, my thoughts travel in a cyclical and almost uniform motion. They skip by grocery list, cruise on past unfinished errands, stop for a while to wade through the murk of problem with a co-worker, [...]

Between personal challenges and charitable incentives, these days running a marathon seems to be taking up a lot room at the top of our bucket lists, and resolution ambitions. So much room, in fact, that the popular marathons are now employing a different kind of registration practice. I understand that with programs like Team [...]

For myself, the ultra marathon (a distance over 26.2 miles, typically 50 kilometers or 50 miles) is something so unknown that it fills me with anxious temptation. Frightening in its challenges, I am intrigued by the question of whether or not I could fulfill such a commitment.
To get an impression of who I am as [...]

Martin Strel carries three Guinness World Records, and is going for one more: Swimming the Amazon River. The scariest thing for Martin while he swims the Amazon? People. This Slovenian endurance swimmer encounters the unfathomable during the movie, “Big River Man” which premiered in Sundance, 2009.